Bruno Taddia

Last update: 24/04/2019
Born in Pavia, he graduated with honors in philosophy aesthetics at the University of Milan and also in violin at the Conservatory of Genoa, under the guidance of Maestro Giulio Franzetti; attended the Experimental Composition of Maestro Bruno Zanolini at the Conservatory in Milan and studied voice with M° Paolo Montarsolo. After the initial activity as a violinist in chamber ensembles and orchestras, in 2001, attended the courses of Accademia Rossiniana in Pesaro, under the guidance of Alberto Zedda, and made his debut on the stage of the Rossini Opera Festival in the role of Don Alvaro in Viaggio a Reims, directed by Emilio Sagi. After playing the role of Taddeo in Italiana in Algeri , 2002, following the classification in As.Li.Co. Competition 2002, he became involved in various productions of the Circuito Lirico Lombardo. Since then , he was invited in the eminent theaters in Italy and abroad. In recent seasons he sang at the Rome Opera in Candide by Bernstein (Maximilian / The Captain / Tsar Ivan); at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris in the role of Pasquale nell'Orlando Paladino by F. J. Haydn, Macrobio in La pietra del paragone and Figaro in Barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini under the baton of Maestro J. C . Spinosi. He sang the role of the Elviro in Xerxes by G. F. Handel at the Chateau de Versailles (in concert ), Lindo in Vivaldi's Tito Manlio under the conduction of Dantone at the Theater an der Wien; Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus by Strauss at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro by Mozart for the opening of the 2013-2014 season at the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, where he performed, in past seasons, Mercurio in Calisto by Cavalli and had great success performing Punch in Punch and Judy by Birtwistle. He was Malatesta in Don Pasquale by Donizetti, under the baton of Maestro Riccardo Muti at Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna. He played malatesta in Theater Municipal in Santiago, Chile and Opera Oviedo, too. Moreover, among his many successes, we remember Don Pomponio in La Gazzetta by Rossini, directed at the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, by Dario Fo and conducted by Maurizio Barbacini , Dulcamara at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa ; Mamm'Agata in Viva la mamma or Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali by Donizetti at the Semperoper in Dresden ; Gamberotto in L’equivoco stravagante by Rossini at Deusche Oper Berlin ; Count Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni in Don Giovanni by Mozart at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf; Prosdocimo in Il Turco in Italia by Rossini at the Rossini Opera Festival in 2007; Okçuoglu in Teneke by Fabio Vacchi at the Teatro alla Scala ; Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte at Rome Opera and Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. He was Tiresia in Niobe, regina di Tede by A. Steffani at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London et al Grand Théâtre de la Ville in Luxembourg. Therefore, he worked with conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Gianluigi Gelmetti , Roberto Abbado, Maurizio Barbacini , Alberto Zedda , Thomas Hengelbrock . His repertoire ranges from opera buffa and dramatic roles , from Mozart to Rossini , Donizetti and Puccini , as well as contemporarymusic and Baroque repertoire . He is very fond in chamber music, too. There were, in fact, in past seasons important performances of lieder, especially the entire cycles of Winterreise and Die Shone Müllerin, by Schubert, at the Academy of France, Villa Medici in Rome , at Teatro delle Muse in Ancona , Teatro della Fortuna in Fano and Società del Quartetto in Bergamo, played along with pianist Andrea Corazziari , with whom he collaborates regularly. He was a resident artist in October / November of 2010 at the Cultural Centre “Abbaye de Fontevraud” with an art project on chamber music for voice . The composer Stefano Gervasoni has dedicated to him and to M° Corazziari the song for baritone and piano "Love growths " ed. Suvini Zerboni . He was engaged in a concert at the Auditorium of the Musée d'Orsay Lieder in Paris with pianist Andrea Corazziari (music by Bizet, Wagner , Nietzsche, Schoenberg , Debussy).